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Anytime Multi-Agent Path Finding with an Adaptive Delay-Based Heuristic
Anytime multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is a promising approach to scalable path optimization in multi-agent systems.
RePrompt: Planning by Automatic Prompt Engineering for Large Language Models Agents
In this past year, large language models (LLMs) have had remarkable success in domains outside the traditional natural language processing, and people are starting to explore the usage of LLMs in more general and close to application domains like code generation, travel planning, and robot controls.
ITA-ECBS: A Bounded-Suboptimal Algorithm for the Combined Target-Assignment and Path-Finding Problem
The Combined Target-Assignment and Path-Finding (TAPF) problem, a variant of MAPF, requires one to simultaneously assign targets to agents and plan collision-free paths for agents.
MARL-LNS: Cooperative Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning via Large Neighborhoods Search
Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has been an increasingly important research topic in the last half-decade because of its great potential for real-world applications.
Caching-Augmented Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding
In this paper, we present a novel mechanism named Caching-Augmented Lifelong MAPF (CAL-MAPF), designed to improve the performance of Lifelong MAPF.
Why Solving Multi-agent Path Finding with Large Language Model has not Succeeded Yet
With the explosive influence caused by the success of large language models (LLM) like ChatGPT and GPT-4, there has been an extensive amount of recent work showing that foundation models can be used to solve a large variety of tasks.
Adaptive Anytime Multi-Agent Path Finding Using Bandit-Based Large Neighborhood Search
State-of-the-art anytime MAPF is based on Large Neighborhood Search (LNS), where a fast initial solution is iteratively optimized by destroying and repairing a fixed number of parts, i. e., the neighborhood, of the solution, using randomized destroy heuristics and prioritized planning.
Artificial Intelligence/Operations Research Workshop 2 Report Out
This workshop Report Out focuses on the foundational elements of trustworthy AI and OR technology, and how to ensure all AI and OR systems implement these elements in their system designs.
Co-Design of Topology, Scheduling, and Path Planning in Automated Warehouses
Given a list of products, the WSP amounts to finding a plan for a team of agents which brings every product on the list to a station within a given timeframe.
Cost Splitting for Multi-Objective Conflict-Based Search
Our theoretical results show that, when combined with either of these two new splitting strategies, MO-CBS maintains its completeness and optimality guarantees.
The (Un)Scalability of Heuristic Approximators for NP-Hard Search Problems
Our first experimental results for three representative NP-hard minimum-cost path problems suggest that using neural networks to approximate completely informed heuristic functions with high precision might result in network sizes that scale exponentially in the instance sizes.
Optimal and Bounded-Suboptimal Multi-Goal Task Assignment and Path Finding
We present algorithms that build upon algorithmic techniques for the multi-agent path finding problem and solve the MG-TAPF problem optimally and bounded-suboptimally.
Multi-Goal Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery
In this work, we consider the Multi-Agent Pickup-and-Delivery (MAPD) problem, where agents constantly engage with new tasks and need to plan collision-free paths to execute them.
Cooperative Task and Motion Planning for Multi-Arm Assembly Systems
Multi-robot assembly systems are becoming increasingly appealing in manufacturing due to their ability to automatically, flexibly, and quickly construct desired structural designs.
Multi-Robot Routing with Time Windows: A Column Generation Approach
We formulate the problem as a weighted set packing problem where the elements in consideration are items on the warehouse floor that can be picked up and delivered within specified time windows.
Pairwise Symmetry Reasoning for Multi-Agent Path Finding Search
Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a challenging combinatorial problem that asks us to plan collision-free paths for a team of cooperative agents.
Learning to Resolve Conflicts for Multi-Agent Path Finding with Conflict-Based Search
In this work, we propose an oracle for conflict selection that results in smaller search tree sizes than the one used in previous work.
Learning to Select Nodes in Bounded Suboptimal Conflict-Based Search for Multi-Agent Path Finding
Multi-Agent Path Finding is an NP-hard problem that is difficult for current approaches to solve optimally.
EECBS: A Bounded-Suboptimal Search for Multi-Agent Path Finding
ECBS is a bounded-suboptimal variant of CBS that uses focal search to speed up CBS by sacrificing optimality and instead guaranteeing that the costs of its solutions are within a given factor of optimal.
Integer Programming for Multi-Robot Planning: A Column Generation Approach
We consider the problem of coordinating a fleet of robots in a warehouse so as to maximize the reward achieved within a time limit while respecting problem and robot specific constraints.
Embedding Directed Graphs in Potential Fields Using FastMap-D
FastMap is an efficient embedding algorithm that facilitates a geometric interpretation of problems posed on undirected graphs.
Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding in Large-Scale Warehouses
Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is the problem of moving a team of agents to their goal locations without collisions.
Experimental Comparison of Global Motion Planning Algorithms for Wheeled Mobile Robots
Planning smooth and energy-efficient motions for wheeled mobile robots is a central task for applications ranging from autonomous driving to service and intralogistic robotics.
Idle Time Optimization for Target Assignment and Path Finding in Sortation Centers
In this paper, we study the one-shot and lifelong versions of the Target Assignment and Path Finding problem in automated sortation centers, where each agent needs to constantly assign itself a sorting station, move to its assigned station without colliding with obstacles or other agents, wait in the queue of that station to obtain a parcel for delivery, and then deliver the parcel to a sorting bin.
Multi-Agent Path Finding with Capacity Constraints
Agents can move to neighbor vertices across edges.
Multi-Agent Pathfinding: Definitions, Variants, and Benchmarks
The MAPF problem is the fundamental problem of planning paths for multiple agents, where the key constraint is that the agents will be able to follow these paths concurrently without colliding with each other.
Automatic Algorithm Selection In Multi-agent Pathfinding
In a multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) problem, agents need to navigate from their start to their goal locations without colliding into each other.
Position Paper: From Multi-Agent Pathfinding to Pipe Routing
The 2D Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem aims at finding collision-free paths for a number of agents, from a set of start locations to a set of goal positions in a known 2D environment.
Searching with Consistent Prioritization for Multi-Agent Path Finding
We study prioritized planning for Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF).
Lifelong Path Planning with Kinematic Constraints for Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery
For example, we demonstrate that it can compute paths for hundreds of agents and thousands of tasks in seconds and is more efficient and effective than existing MAPD algorithms that use a post-processing step to adapt their paths to continuous agent movements with given velocities.
Multi-Agent Path Finding with Deadlines
We formalize Multi-Agent Path Finding with Deadlines (MAPF-DL).
Multi-Agent Path Finding with Deadlines: Preliminary Results
We formalize the problem of multi-agent path finding with deadlines (MAPF-DL).
Overview: A Hierarchical Framework for Plan Generation and Execution in Multi-Robot Systems
In the plan-generation phase, the framework provides a computationally scalable method for generating plans that achieve high-level tasks for groups of robots and take some of their kinematic constraints into account.
AI Buzzwords Explained: Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF)
Explanation of the hot topic "multi-agent path finding".
Feasibility Study: Moving Non-Homogeneous Teams in Congested Video Game Environments
Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is a well-studied problem in artificial intelligence, where one needs to find collision-free paths for agents with given start and goal locations.
Rapid Randomized Restarts for Multi-Agent Path Finding Solvers
Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is an NP-hard problem well studied in artificial intelligence and robotics.
The FastMap Algorithm for Shortest Path Computations
We present a new preprocessing algorithm for embedding the nodes of a given edge-weighted undirected graph into a Euclidean space.
Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding for Online Pickup and Delivery Tasks
In the MAPD problem, agents have to attend to a stream of delivery tasks in an online setting.
Path Planning with Kinematic Constraints for Robot Groups
Path planning for multiple robots is well studied in the AI and robotics communities.
Overview: Generalizations of Multi-Agent Path Finding to Real-World Scenarios
Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is well-studied in artificial intelligence, robotics, theoretical computer science and operations research.
Blue Sky Ideas in Artificial Intelligence Education from the EAAI 2017 New and Future AI Educator Program
The 7th Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI'17, co-chaired by Sven Koenig and Eric Eaton) launched the EAAI New and Future AI Educator Program to support the training of early-career university faculty, secondary school faculty, and future educators (PhD candidates or postdocs who intend a career in academia).
Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence Courses
The recent surge in interest in ethics in artificial intelligence may leave many educators wondering how to address moral, ethical, and philosophical issues in their AI courses.
Optimal Target Assignment and Path Finding for Teams of Agents
On the low level, CBM uses a min-cost max-flow algorithm on a time-expanded network to assign all agents in a single team to targets and plan their paths.
Multi-Agent Path Finding with Delay Probabilities
Several recently developed Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) solvers scale to large MAPF instances by searching for MAPF plans on 2 levels: The high-level search resolves collisions between agents, and the low-level search plans paths for single agents under the constraints imposed by the high-level search.
Theta*: Any-Angle Path Planning on Grids
Angle-Propagation Theta* achieves a better worst-case complexity per vertex expansion than Basic Theta* by propagating angle ranges when it expands vertices, but is more complex, not as fast and finds slightly longer paths.
BnB-ADOPT: An Asynchronous Branch-and-Bound DCOP Algorithm
Our experimental results show that BnB-ADOPT finds cost-minimal solutions up to one order of magnitude faster than ADOPT for a variety of large DCOP problems and is as fast as NCBB, a memory-bounded synchronous DCOP search algorithm, for most of these DCOP problems.
